VPP - Protection Profile for Virtualization v. 1.0 for Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Restrict Programs from Dangerous Execution Patterns
The recommendations in this section are designed to ensure that the system's features to protect against potentially dangerous program execution ar...Group -
Enable ExecShield
ExecShield describes kernel features that provide protection against exploitation of memory corruption errors such as buffer overflows. These featu...Group -
Enable ExecShield via sysctl
By default on Red Hat Virtualization 4 64-bit systems, ExecShield is enabled and can only be disabled if the hardware does not support ExecShield o...Rule Medium Severity -
Restrict Exposed Kernel Pointer Addresses Access
To set the runtime status of the <code>kernel.kptr_restrict</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w kernel.kptr_r...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable Randomized Layout of Virtual Address Space
To set the runtime status of the <code>kernel.randomize_va_space</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w kernel.r...Rule Medium Severity
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